puzzled - Story 108644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the email?" Mark asked, his voice low as he leaned over Emily's desk. Emily jumped, startled. She hadn't heard him approach.

"Yeah," she replied, her voice strained. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. "What do you make of it?"

Mark shrugged, but Emily noticed the slight tremor in his hand as he reached for a coffee cup. They had both worked here since college. What did this mean for them? A wave of apprehension washed over her.

She looked around the office, at the familiar faces, the familiar routine. All of a sudden, it all felt brittle, fragile. She felt a strong sense of disquiet, like a storm was brewing on the horizon.

Emotion: puzzled

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion puzzled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 puzzled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the puzzled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the puzzled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.453
`🤔`	0.421
`🤔`	0.402
`🧐`	0.328
`a`	0.294

Suppressed:

`ecstatic`	-0.265
`gladly`	-0.238
`swiftly`	-0.237
`alleviate`	-0.234
`wholeheartedly`	-0.232